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8 *$ PRODUCERS SCOFF DRANITISTS NOVE Theater Managers Indiffer-| G ent—Say “Closed Shop” Attempt to Play Market. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 9.—Action of 131 leading Amierican dramatists who organized a_“closed shop” Thursday protect their rights against they term an attempt to corner play market s unimportant, in opinion of theatrical produc While most of the New York man agzers sald they probably would sign the proposed new contract with little * no protest. Al Woods declared he 1d refuse to sign. He does nk much of the Society of Ameri- th The kids ar They are ried about thing for which there Is no cause o legitimate theater pro- uthor on the said ducer ever motion pieture ri Offi of the Fox Film Co., whose reported plan to finance plays in re turn for motion picture rights, stimu- lated the or: tion of the Aatlsts, refus ment on the “closed shop™ ple would pro- nagers fr ts outside of ALEXANDRIA. AL 0 (Special). ANDRIA, Va. January Notwithstanding the snow and sleet, which enveloped the city last night, more than 600 Alexar drians attended community night sins “Bob" Lawrence of Washington was fn charge of the music program. ¥ Treasurer Rodger (. Sullivan sell at public auction Monday spproximately 100 pleces of real estute Tor delinquent taxes. Of this number those who pay t will be able to e their property. No changes will sade in the list to be published . After that time the own- have the privilege of redeeming property by paying the back . and all costs per cent terest. Miss Dorothy 1y King. daughter of and Mrs. Frank T. King, 815 ince street, was overcome by mo ide gas while heating water in the hroom of her home Thursday ni Her father heard her fail to the floor and rescued her by break- ing in the bathroom door Dr. Samuel Wallis, _profess emeritus of the Episcopal Theologi v and former pastor of Pohic . who suffered an attack of in while on the street vester- ¢ morning, had a good night and physiclans, Dr. George T. Klip- stein and Dr. Hubert Snowden, believe he is out of danger. Because of his dvanced age, years, his friends had been alarmed. One hundred and sixty-nine divorces were granted in the local courts here during 1925, according to Elliott F. Hoffman, cierk of the Corporation Court. This was an increase of 31 over 1924, when decrees were granted 10 138 couples. In 1923 the number totaled 173. Week of prayer service conducted st the several Protestant churches here closed last night with an address by Rev. Edgar Carpenter, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, The services were held in the Second Presbyterian Church. Dr. Samuel A. Wallls was scheduled to make the address, but was prevented by fllness. MISS PATTY FIELD WINS HONORS IN AMSTERDAM D. C. Resident, First Woman Con- sul, Warmly Welcomed by Holland Leaders. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily ) MSTERDAM, January eular officlal ever has been welcomed with greater affability by a forelgn country than Miss Patty Field of “ashington, American vice consul at sterdam and the first American yman who has been sent to a for- eign country in the consular service. s Fleld's arrival in the Dutch is regarded here as an event, and is a popular rsation in soclety. Re Iy Miss Fleld was tendered a re- ception by the Dutch Women's Club, and tonight she will be guest of honor t a dinner arranged by a committee the Dutch League of Woman Vote The league is a section of the International Alliance for Woman Suffrage, which next May will hold an international congress In Parls to honor Mrs. Carrfe Chapman Catt on the occasion of her twenty vears' jubf- lee as president of the ailiance. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From New York, ARRIVED YESTERDAY. George Washington Bremen, Dec Hamburg. Dec. “Valparaiso. Dec. ondon; Dec. DUE TODAY. ...St. John' Na: Aconcagua Minnekahda Jan. unargo Jan La Savols v DUE -Port Limon. Jan . Naples. De De *Liverpooi, Antwerp. De. MONDAY. Celte Aurania Yoltaire Santa Ligers oL Liverpoc Rio de Janeiro, . Valparaiso. De: . Bermuda Jan. Progresso, Jan Colombia. Jan Rotterdam, Dec. DUE TUESDAY. Southampton. Jan. Bremen, Jan| . Havre. J Monterey Bridgetown’ . Volendam .. Havana, Jan. OUTGOING STEAMERS, SAILED YESTERDAY. Clan Ross—Cape Town. Byron—Piracus Fort St Geores—Bérimuda. Jiomang—Monte Chrintloo L0t " der Nederi'den—Port au Prince. SAILING TODAY. Nobles—Pirgeus . Teviathan—Southampte Alaunis—Liverpool roedyk —Rotterdam \-rangaria—Southampicn . faine—Antwerp Porto Rico—Havan: £3 &888 R 25 32338583383 i K 285520558 s I U T g g gt S sagus— siris—Buenos Alres. flua—Port Ligo: Turon—Santo Domingo City’ Munargo—Nassau ‘ort Hamilton—Hamii{on. hespis—Para AV 5333 388383 WE! chenectady—Copenhagen s Bavoie—Havre . aine—Antwerp Roma—Horta Kiboney—Havana arac lan Juan garlllo—Kingston, ki 25555555 833233233383 > »—port ?'u"!am:m.“. : T —cast Ollrhmn Princo—Montevideo.. ee 25 what | the | dram- | [Art Collection | Of C. K. G. Billings Brings $401,300 By the Associatad Press. NEW YORK, January 9.—The K. G. Iyllings art collection, ‘h formerly hung in Fort Tryon Hall, on Washington Heights, has Lrought $401,300. It was sold last night at the Am n Art Galleries in one of the most important auctions held here in many ye Corot's Borromee: iver brought $50.500, the high the sale. It was bought by James Iverson, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer. About 0 art dealers and col- lectors attended the sale, many of them being unable to get into the auction roop. Mr. PRilllngs, now a resident of California, decided to sell his col- lection because he lacked accomio- dations them on the coast. The previous high record for an art in the last 10 vears was the ion of the H. 8. Henry col- le in 1907, which brought 3 TALKES IS INSTALLED AS HEAD OF ‘13 CLUB ars. Bu fon 500, ny | | | i Body, in Resolution, Opposes All- Night Parking Ban, Now Proposed. tephen . Talkes was installed as president of the Thirteen Club ut the regular meeting of the organization at the City Club Thursday night. The new president succeeds Vernon B. Lowery. Other officers of the club installed were: Radford Moses, vice presi- by, secre ¢; Jerome Be G. ery, parliamenta- rian, and Willlam T. Hopkins, mar he members elected to serve on the board of gov- ernors with the presidént, psesident and sec- retary were H. Raymond Bresnahan, Vernon B. Lowery, Charles Graves and “oseph F. Randall. The Thirteen Club S. M. TALKES. unanimously .| adopted a resolution opposing the ban on all-night parking. The club is interested in the hetterment of public speaking and parliamentary proce dure. MUSIC CHARMING TWO-PIANO RECITAL. Beautiful music always is Interest- ing to a musical audience, and when, in addition, it is performed by fine artists the combination is wellnigh un- surpassable for keen enjoyment. Yes- terday the Friday Morning Music Club had a delightful treat in the program of two-plano numbers presented by Mary Howe and Anne Hull. It was an excellently balanced and varied pro- gram. In most of the compositions the perfect co-ordination and har- montous moods of the two performers gave the effect of easy. poised musical conversation. Harold Bauer's arrangement of Bach's “Fantasia and Fugue in A Ainor” was the opening number and was given unusually colorful interpre- tation. Bach played by real artists possesses real charm. The next num- ber was Schumann's singing “Theme and Variations,” coupled with a bril- liant “Feu Roulant” of Duvernoy’s. The third group contained the Aren- sky “Prelude” and “Le Reve, the latter an exquisite composition given sympathetic ‘atmospheric” treatment, and Ravel's “La Valse, a clever satire on the Strauss favorite which seemed a modernistic psvchoanalysis of the waltz and its alluring qualities. The fourth group had two lovely Debussy numbers, “Cortege” and Minuet.” skillfully arranged for two planos; Gliere’s descriptive, “‘Orien- tale,” and two Spanish songs tran- scribed by Mrs. Howe. In these tran- scriptions this well known composer- pianist of Washington has emphasized all the charming qualities of the Spanish themes with short, telling ar- rangement that makes both numbers fascinating. In response to request, the second of the songs was repeated. Tt has a deliclous giissando at the dashing finale, which Miss Hull played with positive glee. Throughout the program the evident enjoyment of their share in interpreting each num- ber on the part of both planists add- ed much to the general enjoyvment. So many artists either act or assume a bored attitude ard thus detract from their concerts. The last number was a scherzo by Saint-Saens, which rose to an operatic climax and was swept to a glorfous close by the performers. H. F. MODERN MUSIC DISCUSSED. Miss Ball Gives First of Series of Talks on Music, New and 0ld. Miss Frances de Villa Ball, thorough student of the classical music and its history and harmony as evolved by Bach and other geniuses, as well as an earnest advo- cate of the more recent genius, De- bussy, and present-day Innovators in music, gave the first of a series of lecture recitals at the Homer Kitt Studio Wednesday afternoon. In this serles Miss Ball is attempting, through comparison and touching upon the high lights of musical his. tory, to give her audience some com- prehension of the “why” of modern music. Last week she began with several highly contrasting definitions of music, dwelling especlally upon that of Alfred Casella, the Itallan modernist, whom she considers the most intellectual of the newest school of music in Italy. She also read criticlsms by the leading writers on musical subjects of several periods, including one written several cen- turies before Christ, one concern- ning the music of Monteverde, the “father of opera,” In sixteenth cen- tury Italy; one lamenting the crash newness and dissonance of Chopin's music, etc., all bearing a tone of censure and lament over the short- sighted superficlalities of these “new" composers. Miss Ball then played toccatas by an early Itallan master, Turulo, by Johoun Froberger of 1667, and by ude Debussy. The last-mentioned was a marvelous work filled with joy- ous gayety in its rippling passages. It is a work that would be attrac- tive on any pianist’s recital program. She also played the overture from the famous Debussy “Burgermels- ter” suite and the well known “Claire de Lune.” This week the second meeting will be held Wednesday afternoon at 0 o'clock in the third floor studio of the Homer Kitt Bullding. Arsenic spraying of American apples is causing considerable agitation in England, where apples are not sprayed for pests after they have grown to the _x; size of a large walnut. v kd vice| THE EVENING IELDRIDGE MUZZLES 1 {Unable ' to Ban All-Night Parking He Clamps Lid on Publicity. Unexpected developments came as a sequel today to the action of the District Commissfoners yesterday in refusing to adopt @ proposed regu- lation *o prohibit all-night parking. Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge and his assistant, Col. I C. Moller, have sealed their lips when in the pres ence of newspaper reporters. The only explanation they gave for their sudden decision to step out of the public melight was that the Traffic Bureau had been wetting entirely too much publicity, and they think it { high time for some other municipal department, like the Police or Iire Department, to maneuver into public attentfon. The new traffic control lights on Mas- sachusetts avenue between Twelfth and Eighteenth streets were turned on late yesterday, completing the first unit ‘of Washington’s automatic signal system, but the newspapers did not learn of the event until to 1a Mr. Eldridge said that had the spapers notified the public in ad e as to the time the lizhts were rned on, “every motorist in ould have driven out Massa to see how the slg town chusetts avenue nals worked. He intimated that the jam and con { fusion on Sixteenth street Tu | when the lights were put into ope ation, were due to the mad rush o motorists to try out the new system. Anyhow, the traffic director’s office is muzzled, so to speak. Views origi- | nating in this young and important de- { partment of District government must now come through Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning, who has charge of the Traffic Department. Asked if he had issued orders to stop the flow of news from the traffic director's office, Commissioner Fen- ning replied firmly in the negative. Questioned as to whether he had ad- vised Mr. Eldridge to seal his lips and those of his colleagues when news- paper men drop in to see him, “enning replied: T discussed the matter with Mr. Eldridge. 1 think he has made a very wise decision.” Mr. COOLIDGE FR(-]WES ON HASTY CHANGE OF FISCAL SYSTEM (Continued from First Page.) have to be considered. Not having all of those elements before him at the time, the President hesitated to go further, but expressed a firm belief that it seemed to him as though some- thing satisfactory could be worked out on that line. In conclusion he ex- pressed the hope that such is the basis of the present arrangement for discus- sion of fiscal relations. The President’s views on the general subject of fiscal relations were con- sidered especially interesting at this time as a bill has been introduced and favorably reported in the House for the acquisition of the land needed to complete the Potomac-Rock Creek Parkway by the use of $800.000 re- maining of the District's surplus. This money, it was pointed out, was raised under the 50-50 plan of apportionment. by which the Federal Government met its share by matching, dollar for dol- lar, money accumulated from District taxes. Would Nullify Surplus. The present plan, it was pointed out, would mean that the District, for the first time In history. would pay wholly for a part of a park system that heretofore has been paid for part- 1y out of Federal appropriations. It would also mean a virtual nullifica- tion of the District’s surplus, as the Federal Government would be cred- iting the District with a sum through one motion, and with the mext ap- propriating this sum for a Federal project, with no aid from Federal sources, = | DEMOCRATS BOLT ON TAX PUBLICITY (Continued from First Page) resolution protesting against pro- visions of the inherftance tax rates in the House bill. BATTLE WON. Democrats Make Possible a Non-Par- tisan Tax Bill. BY DAVID LAWREN Although the Democratic party is going to ask for several changes in the tax bill which passed the House, the truth is the battle for a non-parti- san revenue measure has been won. The decision of the Democrats to abandon the fight for publicity of tax returns was the turning point in the councils of the party. It meant the difference between a radical bill and a conservative bill. It was on this point that the Democrats joined the insur- gents and rewrote the House tax bill last year. The Democrats are by no means a unit on various tax proposals. Sena- tor King of Utah, for instance, is will- ing to reduce the corporation tax from 1215 to 10 per cent. It has been a long time since any one in the Senate was ready to cut the corporation taxes. This is hardly an appeal for radical support and is a frank recog- nition that on the conservative side there is strength also. It is a difficult matter for the po- litical party to make up its mind Just what it shculd do about a tax bill. Reduction of taxes is, of course, a general objective of all political parties, and the Republicans have reaped political benefits of no small size because they have been in power while taxes have been reduced. Even last year, when the Democrats forced the Republicans to accept their ideas on reductions benefiting the small tax- payers, there was no sign that the voters remembered this in the 1924 landslide in which the Republicans triumphed. Many Democrats now are wonder- ing whether there is not more to be (alned by appealing to the large class ¢ indirect taxpayers than to base their fight on the rates that apply to particular groups of individual in- comes. The Democrats, for example, are proposing to repeal automobile taxes and levies payable for admission to amusements of various kinds. They also are considering a reduction of miscellaneous taxes, together with g revision downward of the corporation taxes. It would not do, of course, for the Democrats, as a matter of tradition, to yield without protest to the reduc- tion of the surtaxes. Their opposi-: tion, however, to a 20 per cent maxi- mum and their desire to substitute a 25 per cent maximum is relatively unimportant, because the difference between the two rates is so slight that the proposal can hardly be con- sidered as an attack on the merits of a low surtax. Also, there i{s room for compromise between the 20 per cent adopted by the House and a 25 per cent rate which the Democrais in the Senate propose. TRAFFCBUREAU BTAR, WASHINGTON, By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 9.—To foll the aggressive type of salesman and others who annoy a celebrity, George Bernard Shaw has arranged to send some of his letters over a code slgna- ture, the replies to be delivered to him through a concern which will protect his anonymf Explaining his regis- tration of a “‘monomark,” as it is call- ed, the writer says: “My reason for tuking out a private monomark {s that I am what is called a celebrity. It is sometimes exces. sively inconvenient to be a celebrity because of the advertising value of ¢ celebrated name. “If the unfortunate victim of his own notoriety writes for the price list of the latest shock-absorber, he does D. 0, BATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926. Shaw, Irked by Fame, Gets Monomark To Protect Self From 1926 Go-Getters 80 at the risk of finding 10 cars at his door the next morning, demanding that he shall instantly leave hls work and have a trial run. Bach car will be attended by a group of photogr: phers, including one with a motion camera. “What woukl happen if he inti- mated that be desired advances of from £5 to £50,000 on his note of bond, in strictest secrecy—no busi ness transacted with minors—I don't know, but I have no doubt that all Jermyn Street would be on his door- step in no time with bulging pocket- books and cameras, all complete. “Life is impossible unless one can be an insignificant private individual occasionally. That is what I want a monomark for." DISTRICT SEEKING GARBAGE PLANT Commissioners Ask Authority to Buy 65 Acres in * Virginia. The District Commissioners today |asked Congress for nuthority to pur- chi 65 _acres of land at Cockpit Point, in Prince Willlam County, Va., for a municipal garbage dispos: at a cost of $10,200, entirel District of Columbia funds. If this is not done it will cost the City of Washington $1,000,000 to ac- quire land and construct bufldings for an adequate sewage disposal plant in some other location, the Commis- sloners emphasize in thelr letter to Chairman Zthlman of the District House committee. It was explained that the District has been occupying 25 acres of this lind under lease. This lease has ex- pired and the owners are attempting to demand more than the District Commissioners are willing to pay. The Commissioners explained that for five months they have been trying to get a more satisfactory lease. Under the authority asked by the Commisejoners an additional 40 acres, besides the 25 acres now occupled, would be acquired. PAINLEVE’S SON TO ENTER MOVIES TO AID SORBONNE Student Found “Photogenic’ and Will Star in Films to Get Money for Laboratory. By the Associated Press PARIS, January 9—Jean Painleve, son of the minister of war, is golng to be a moving picture star. He will do it. however, to make money to in- crease the facilities of the Sorbonne laboratory, in which he, although a young man, {8 or.2 of the most distin- guished workers M. Painleve was arranging for filming a scientific picture in connec- tion with laboratory work., when a well known producer with whom he was negotiating remarked that M. Painleve was “photogenic” and asked him if he would not make a regular picture. Jean laughed at first, but suddenly it occurred to him that here was a way to &dd to the meager bud- get of the laboratory, and he agreed. There 13 no idea on the part of M. Painleve of abandoning the sclentific career he has begun with such distinc- tion for picture making, but he will endeavor to combine art and scfence. MEXICAN TOWN IN PERIL FROM RIVER LERMA FLOOD Residents of San Blas Flee to Hills. Damage Now Placed at 4,000,000 Pesos. B the Associated Press. MEXIC CITY. January 9. —The town of San Blas in the State of Nava- |rit is threatened with destruction from the flood waters of the River Lerma and the inhabitants are flesing into the hills for safety, say dispatches from that region. The damage al- ready done is estimated at 4,000,000 pesos. None of the newspaper dispatches from the flooded area received today specify the number of dead due to floods in the State of Nayarit. Other advices, however, are to the effect that several towns have been destroyed and that there has been havy loss of life. ADMIRAL WILLITS RITES. Funeral of Retired Naval Officer Held at Arlington Cemetery. Funeral services for Rear Admiral A. B. Wiliits, U. 8. N., retired, who died in the United States Naval Hos- pital, Philadelphia, Thursday, were conducted at the receiving vault in Arlington Cemetery this afternoon, with interment in Arlington. Full mil- itary honors were rendered at the grave. Honorary pallbearers were Rear Admiral B. C. Bryan, U. 8. 2 tired; Rear Admiral L. E. Gregory, U. S. N.; Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, U. 8. N., retired; Rear Ad- miral R. S. Griffin, U, S. N., retired, and Capt. Edward J. Dorn, U. 8. N. retired. PNEUMONM.INCHEASING. 12 New Cases Reported, Bringing Total for Month to 80. Pneumonia continues to increase in the District. Physicians reported 12 new cases to the District Health De- partment today, bringing the total for the month to 90. Four deaths also were reported, making 31 victims of the disease since January 1. District Health Officer Fowler still maintains pneumonia is far from the epidemic stage, although he admits it is “quite prevalent.” January is the pneumonia month in the Capital, he points out. -No decided abatement in the cases is looked for in the near future. British-Mexico Pact Near. MEXICO CITY, January 9 (P).—Ne- gotiations are said to be progressing favorably between the Mexican gov- ernment and the new British Minis- ter, Esmond Ovey, for the conclusion of claims conventions similar to those negotiated between Mexico and the United States. Asks Uniform Family Laws. Amendment of the Constitution to give Congress power to make uniform laws on marriage and divorce, legitl matization of children and the care and custody of children affected by marriage annulment or divorce was proposed In a joint resolution intro- duced yesterday by Representative Gibson, Republican, Vermont. PR O ey New York City now has 125 woman members on its police force. The feminine force is headed by Mrs. Mary A. Sullivan. ! Diphtheria Germs In Throats of 11 School Children Analysis of the throat cultures of pupils at the Garnett-Patterson Schools, where three cases of diphtheria have been discovered, today revealed 11 additional pupils who, while in perfect health, carry diphtheria germs In their throats. This makes a total of 51 pupils who are in this situation, as 40 “carrfers” were discovered yes- terday. The cultures were taken under the direction of Dr. William ¢ Fowler, who announces the &l pupils will be kept under close observation. He sald he was not alarmed over the situation and felt confident his department soon will be able to stamp out the disease. DONOVAN UPHOLDS SARGENT ON STAND IN ALUMINUM QUIZ (Continued from First Page) “I have mno recollection of it," peated the Attorney General. ‘The memorandum later was read to the committee by Col. Donovan, and in substance it directed that the At torney General be Informed with re gard to the case of the Aluminum Co. of America before any definite steps | were taken. During the hearing this morning Senator Neely of West Virginia as salled the Federul Trade Commission particularly because it had declined to turnover to the Department of Jus tice the information received in its in vestigation from the Aluminum Co. of America unless that company should give ite consent. “Is the reason that you don't g0 to the Federal Trade Commisston for in formation because the commission has become a farce and of no aid to the people who need protection from these | big monopolfes?” nsked Senator Neely. “As a member of the House I helped to pass the legislation creat- ing the commission. 1 now think it ought to he aholished, or & new com- mission obtained. I fear that it will merely be a great obstacle to your getting information you may need.” Col.” Donovan told the committee that he took charge of his presant office about March 23, 1925. Previous to that he had been an Assistant Attorney General in charge of crim- inal cases. As an assistant to the Attorney General, he is charged with handMng the cases brought under the anti-trust laws. In reply to a question by Senator Walsh, Col. Donovan said that the Aluminum Co. case had been brought to his attention two or three days after he had taken over his new office by the memorandum of Attorney Gen- eral Sargent. Col. Donovan sald that he went to see former Attorney Gen. eral Stone, whose letter to the Federal Trade Commission of January 3v, 1625, indicated he had ordered an investiga- tion of the Aluminum Co. of America to ascertain whether the company haid been violating the court decree. Traces Letter to Source. Mr. Stone, he said, had informed him that he had signed a the Trade Commission which had been handed to him by Mr. Sevmour, Col. Donovan's predecessor. Col. Don- ovan traced the letter down to & sub- ordinate who drafted it and ascer- talned that it had been based on the report of the Faderal Trade Commis- sion on the Aluminum Co. and no upon an investigation by the Depart ment of Justice ftself. The Trade Commission report was made_in Oc- tober, 1924, Col. Donovan said he had ascer- tained that the investigation by the department had already been outlined and Mr. Dunn had been assigned to it. He sald that he had called the atten- tion of farmer Attorney General Stone to the fact that the Federal Trade Commission had declined to give the department the data obtained from the Aluminum Co. itself. Mr. Stone, he sald, had told him that he had been told the Aluminum Co. was ready to give the saime information to the de- partment. “I thought the procedure outlined by former Attorney General Stone ‘was proper,” sald Col. Donovan, “and it has been adhered to ever since; first. to go to the Trade Commission to ob- tain information there, then to the purchasers of supplies from the Aluminum Co. of America and then to the company itself. I found that Dunn had aiready been to the Trade (fl:&mm” ission and had examined its 5. Cites Other Trust Cases. Col. Donovan called attention to the anti-trust cases which were then pend- ing against furniture companies and refrigerator companies, as well as against the Aluminum Co. He said, in defense of the department against the suggestion made yesterday by Senator King of Utah, that the de- partment had falled to prosecute anti- trust cases vigorouely, that convic- tions were obtained in the furniture and refrigerator cases, with many per- sons being found guilty and fines amounting to nearly half a million dollars being imposed. He sald that the investigation of those cases had been conducted and the cases were ready to be submitted when he came into office, Col. Donovan sald that Dunn had talked to him in July about the Alu- minum Co. case and the following month he submitted a report cover- ing a large part of the investigation, showing that Dunn had talked to the officials of the companies which had made complaints against the Alu- minum Co. of America. WOMAN, 80, FOUND DEAD. Body of Mrs. Kate Jenkins Is Dis- covered by Daughter. Mrs. Kate Jenkins, 80 years old, was found dead near the kitchen stove In her home, 1816 Thirty-fourth street, late yesterday, where she had lived alone since her husband’s death four years ago. Mrs. Rosanna Schumbert, neighbor and friends of Mrs. Jenkins, became worried as to her condition after not seeing her for a few days and notified Mrs. Jenkins' daughter, Mrs. Bertha Taylor of 1411 Thirty-sixth street, who discovered the body. She is believed to have been dead several days. In- firmities of age are believed to have caused death. letter to | INTRODUCES JNIOR COLLERENEASURE Senator Oddie Presents Joint Resolution for D. C. Institution. Establishment of a junior college as a part of the public school system in the District would be provided for in & joint resolution introduced in the Senate today by Senator Oddle, Re- publican, of Nevada, and referred to committee for consideration. Under the terms of the resolution a portion of Rock Creek Park along the west slde of Sixteenth street between Colorado avenue and Kennedy place would be set aside as the site for the college. The resolution also author- | izes expenditure of $15,000 by the Dis- trict Commissioners to prepare plans and estimates for the college (o he submitted to Congress not later than December 1, 1926. The resolution reeites that such an institution is needed because the local school system does not extend beyond the equivalent of twelfth grade edu- cation, whereas a number of the tates go as far as the sixteenth grade. It is further recited that higher education s even more essential for child n Washington than in many other cities use of the absence of apportunity for Washington children to obtain a livelihood in industrial concerns and in walks of life where only limited education is necessary. The resolution also calis attention to the efforts being made Ly the United States Bureau of Education to en- courage higher education. ALLEGED “EVIL SPIRIT” DOCTOR IS ARRESTED Massachusetts Man Held on Five Charges of Abuse of Young Girls. Ey the Assoctated Press. { WETHERSFIELD, Conn., January {8 —Held on five charges of abuse of young girls, Thomas Mandato of East Longmeadow, Mass., alleged “witch was sent to jall yesterday Howard P. Dunham, justice of for lack of $15,000 bail. All of the girls in the case are less than 15 years old. Mandato is said have practiced the “driving out by making signs of the jo his patients and feeding ) pills. ate police had been investi- gating his activities for some time and he was arrested yesterday at Waterbu, He appeared in court i\\'i(huul ounsel and no plea was entered. Mandato, who appears to be pros- perous and is a good dresser, is be- lieved by some of his patients to be a member of th “Black Hand Society” and it was through their fears, it is said, that he was able to manipulate. | In August, 1924, Mandato was con- lvicted in Springfield, Mass., of the illegal practice of medicine and was fined $100. He treated his patients with chicken and wine and dosed them with pills containing baking soda, sulphur and herbs, it was al leged at his trial in Springfleld. Tt was brought out that he had an ex- tensive practice among Italian and Polish women. The “treatment” took at least two weeks, during which the patients lived at his home. "ROXY:’ AND GANG TODAY APPEAR AT AUDITORIUM First of Public Performances This Afternoon, Another Tonight, for | Aid of Tubercular Children. Having concluded a strenuous round of entertaining, which began at St. Slizabeth's Hospital Thursday night {and wound up at Walter Reed Hos- pital last night, “Roxy” and his gang will put on the first of their four pub- lic performances at the Washington Auditorium this_afternoon. He will give another performance tonight and two more tomorrow, one in the after- noon and the other in the evening. A touching scene at the Walter 1 dio entertainers were dined prior to their entertalnment, was the pres- entation of a_bouquet of flowers to by a disabled soldier who lay a stretcher. Earlier in the day he Walter Reed men had sent a bas- ket of flowers to “Roxy’s” hotel room. Money derived from “Roxy's” four | public appearances in this ecity will be turned over to officers of the Na- tional Sanitarium for Tuberculosis Children, Inc., to help establish a national sanitarfum for _tuberculous children at Albuquerque, N. Mex. The performance tomorrow afternoon be- gins at 3:30 o'clock. MISS WILLIAMS DIES OF SLEEPING SICKNESS Native Washingtonian and De- scendant of Well Known Family Succumbs After Long Illness. Miss Jane E. Williams, 38 years old, npative Washingtonian and a descend- ant of an old-time family of this city, dled of sleeping sickness in Garfield Hospital today after an {llness of two months. Miss Willlams was the daughter of Mrs. Catherine C. Willlams of 2201 Fif- teenth street and was the granddaugh- ter of the late Wash. B. Wililams, who was for many years a well known financier here. She is survived by her mother and_a brother, Wash. B. ‘Williams. Funeral services will be conducted at Ryan's undertaking parlors, 317 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Mon- day afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment wiil be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Liquor Control Repeal Fail HAMILTON, Bermuda, January 9 (®P).—The bill recently introduced in the House of Assembly for the repeal of the lquor control act of 1922 has failed of passage and the law remains in full force and effect. This act pro- hibits the carrying of intoxicating liquors aboard any ship bound for the United States. Eugenics Order Framed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Jan- uary 9 (P).—The science of, eugenics is to have a part in creating the clvilization of new Turkey. The gov- ernor of the Province of Constanti- nople, after a conference with the health authorities, has framed an order requiring medical examination of applicants for marriage licenses. Sweden Indorses Gas Ban. GENEVA, Janur-y 9 UP).—Sweden has signed the = .col for the prohi- bition of the . In war of poison gas, which was adopted at the League of Nations conference with participation of a delegation from the United Statea. Maj. Hesse Orders Streets Roped Off - For Snow Coasting Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superin- tendent of police, firmly establish- ed himself as a friend of the chil- dren today by ordering a number of streets roped off exclusively for coasting. The streets were roped off at 10 o'clock this morning and vehicular trafic will not be per- mitted to use them until after 10 o'clock tonight. Coasting, however, will not be permitted on these streets tomorrow. The streets follow: First street between I, and M; Fifth street between L and M; North Carolina avenus between First and Second southeast; Har- rison street between Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth; Macomb street from Thirty-fifth street to a point 100 feet west of Connecticut avenue; River road, from Wisconsin avenus to Fessenden street; Twentleth street’ from Kalorama road to Ashmead place and Belmont road; Eleventh street from Maryland ave- nue to G street northeast; Irving street from Mount Pleasant street to the Zoological Park; Hobart place from Georgia avenue to the Reservoir; High street from Maple avenue to Fourteenth strpet south- east; Stanton road from Douglass street to Sheridan road southeast; Monroe street from Fourteenth to Elghteenth street. PRESIDENT TO SPEND {Reed Hospital last night, where the| WEEK END ON YACHT Will Be Host to Former Gov. Sproul and Wife—Others to Make Trip. President and Mra. Coolidge will en- tertain former Gov. and Mrs. William C. Sproul of Pennsylvania on board the Mayflower over the week end. The Mayflower will welgh anchor early this afternoon and return to Washington Monday morning after cruise on the lower Potomac. Deepite the cold weather that pre- vailed in this section and the possi- | bility of encountering some ice in the lower Potomac, the President s anxious to keep up his practice of spending an occasional week end on his private yacht. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Sproul, the party will be composed of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearn, Senator and Mrs, Reed of Pennsylvania, Repre- mentative und Mrs. Begg of Ohlo and Senator Smith of South Carolina. COL. EDWARD S. WALTON BURIED AT ARLINGTON Quartermaster Officer Rose From Ranks and Rendered Dis- tinguished Service. Col. Edward S. Walton, Quartermas- ter Corps, who died at Dayton Thurs- day, was buried in Arlington this morning with military honors. Re- liglous services were held at the chap- el at Fort Myer at 11:30 o'clock. The honorary pallbearers were Col. Harley B. Ferguson, Corps of En- gineers: Lieut. Col. F. G. Kelland, Infantry, and Capt. G. F. Hobson, Gen- eral Staff, and the following named officers of the Quartermaster Corps: Brig. Gen. Albert C. Dalton, Lieut. Cols. E. R. Casey and F. B. Wheaton, Maj. G. L. Corbin and Capts. M. M. George and F. H. Mallory. Col. Walton was from Louistana and was a graduate from the ranks of the Army. He served in France as quartermaster, 2d Army, and also as chief quartermaster, Base Section 8, fn Ttaly, for which he received the certificate of merit from the com- manding general, A. E. F., and also was awarded the Italian war service ribbon by the King of Italy. At the time of his death he was construction quartermaster at the new Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Col. Walton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Wheeler Walton, and his mother, who resides in Chicago. MAN AND WIFE HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Machine Hits Pole in Maryland When Driver Is Blinded by Snow. Mrs, Kate Quick, 42 years old. is at Casualty Hospital today in a serious condition and her husband, Ross Quick, 45, is also there with severe Cuts and bruises as the result of an automobile accident on the road from Benedict, Md., early today, when the machine crashed into a telegraph pole and overturned after Richard Wind- sor, the operator, became blinded by the snow. might have sustained a fracture of the skull, but her condition had im- proved this morning. Four persons were in the auto- mobile—the three named above and Miss Frances Windsor, 17, sister of the operator—when the accident oc- curred. They had left Benedict for 1800 P street, where all live, just after the snowstorm became severe and the car swerved from the road and struck a telegraph pole before it had gone far from Benedict. Dr. Carlton R. King, 2015 Nichols avenue southeast, passing in his auto- mobile, picked up the party and took them to Casualty Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Windsor left after first-aid treat- ment had been administered. Gl e LINKS ACCUSED PRINCE WITH U. S. KAROLYI BAN Dispatch Says Alleged Counter- feiter Had Something to Do ‘With Papers. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 9.—A dispatch to Vorwaerts from Vienna claims that Prince Ludwig Windsch-Graetz, the Hungarian nobleman held for alleged participation in the great Budapest counterfeiting plot, had something to do with the documents which were made the basis for the American Gov- ernment’s recent refusal to admit Countess Karolyi to the United States. ‘The paper adds that Senator Borah, as head of the foreign relations com- ;nmee‘ has been acquainted with the acts. ASKS TIRE DUTY REPEAL. House Bill Would Take Away 10 Per Cent Tariff. Repeal of the 10 per cent tariff on rubber tires was asked in a bill today by Representative Hull, Democrat, ‘Tennessee. . The “Republican tariff and accom- panying trade restrictions, prohibi- tions and retaliations,” Mr. Hull said, “had invited the British rubber monopoly to hold up American auto- moblle users for $670,000,000 annually.” . One way to be unbappy is to devote all of your time trying to please your- solf. At first it was believed Mrs. Quick | 'SEX EQUALITY Al OF NOTED WOMAN Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs of Hol- land Promotes Feminine Economic Independence. By tha Associated Press. THE HAGUE, January 9—Equal- ity of the sexes In all social aspects has been the ideal of Aletta H. Jacobs, and largely through her influence Dutchwomen have acquired much greater political and economic inde pendence in the last 30 years. Dr Jacobs' name stands first among th prominent women of present-day H land. ‘When she was born, nearly ago, women did not count for much except as the wives of their husbands or the daughters of their Dutch universities 4id not dr admitting women to their m schools when Aletta made up her mind to become a doctor. At 23, how ever, she had gained the degree of doctor of medicine from Groninzen University and began practice as 1l first woman physician in the lands. Regular in Attendance. Since then few international w en’s congre: pave been h out her con. 5 pres laborating ci with Mr: Chapman Cutt, i in person tact with all feminist move ers in Europe, D trail for women's rights and francl in the face of a full blast of sex dice. The noted suffrage pleader retains full possession of her old fire and 6pirit, despite her advanced age. reactionary spirit which she years of women's social position after war did not come unexpected to her “The men felt themselves heroes and superfor beings, compared with women,"” she told the Ase Press correspondent, “despite ti that the war was their wor would never have I lved under a w men and women for some de ‘The World War came as dous disillusionment to Dr. Ja whose firm conviction it had been t modern society had becor too vanced to tolerate such a catastr. h She threw herself heart and soul int pacifist propaganda. Joins Jane Addams. Following a world tou Mrs. Catt, when they were a champions of their sex in countries, I obs and dams, in 1915, undertook urge the anti-w Hague Internatior gTess upon the goverr beligerant sta President of the Traveling in w time, and for & a purpoee, was fraught with the g est perils and all man of diffie ties, but Aletta Jacobs never faltered She was recefved on_September 1 181 by President Wils White House. Her visit was a disap pointment. In 1892 Dr. Jacobs married Victor Gerritsen, municipal council. of Amsterdam, but elected to re: known under her own name. She still recollects her indignation at being obliged to promise to “obey,” in accordance with Dutch law. “I have never since ceased t tate for the omission of t word she said. “Everybody knows it is . dead letter, so why lie about 1t2" Post-War Situation Discussed. Referring to the post-war situation {of women. Dr. Jacobs s “Although since 18 {beenenfranchised in miore countries, in the United even in some parts of As position of women gene: than before the war. “Must we, women voted our lives to uplift gret this reactic I s “The younger generation of wome: obtained their improved position fr life too easilv. They forget that the greater freedom they now enjoy W gained by the hard ertion of their mothe: possession is &till w 1could be taken from not continue the stru emancipation. &They can do t thefr mothers and fore them, because they now rece a better education :nd because t wield the power of the vote. AS Soor as they undes e both aright they will reg: they lo the past few and all other rights as well “Before this century {s ended women all over the world will have taken their proper place on e that is, all laws. le for comp! more easily thar ndmothers be- s full coequals of men under WOULfiMEND BILL. Controller McCarl's Suggestion for Public Welfare Measure. Controller General McCarl is anx- fous that the public welfare bill when enacted by Congress shall carry a provision making it comform with the general system of accounting which Mr. McCarl has prescribed. In a letter to Chairman Zihlman of the House District of Columbia com- mittee yesterday Mr. McCary suggests a substitute provision in the public wclfare bill giving the controller gen- eral jurisdiction over a uniform ac counting system. “In_all probability it was not In tended .to make an exception to this general rule in this bill,” wrote Mr. McCarl, “and it is believed the best results will be obtalned if the work of prescribing accounting forms continued to be centralized in this fice” (the general accounting office). HEARINGS BEGIN MONDAY. Cldssification Board W1ll Clean up Appeal Cases. Beginning Monday the Personnel Classification Board will hold daily hearings on cases before it on appeal. Heretofore the board had met Inter- imittently under its new procedure, which allows the appellant to appear before it. There are now pending 633 cases, it was eaid at the offices of the board today, and the dally hearings, begin- ning at 10 o'clock each morning, are expected to reduce this number ma terially within a short time. MRS. ROOSEVELT SAILS. NEW YORK, January 9. (#).—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the President, leaves today on the Ward Liner Porto Rico for Mexico and Cen- tral America, where she will visit for a month before returning to meet her son Kermit, who is coming home from his game hunt in India. Mrs. Roose- velt, however, may extend her stay in Central America in order to meet her other son, Theodore, who expects to return from the expedition some time in the Spring by way of the Panams Canal. i